The delicious rot by Matuba Mahlatjie

Back in the day I used to draw inspiration from personal experience. Both good and bad. These days experience include people's tweets on one's timeline.
One man tweeted that he was inspired by the courage of women who were politically active in the 1950s. She used Ms Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as an example. My head started playing slideshows of Mama Albertina Sisulu, Ruth First, Helen Joseph and many others. They all fought back against the evil apartheid government.
Today we are unfortunate because we have no such women. A whole generation faded with time. They are replaced with women who glorify patriarchy. They are replaced by men and women who will suppress conscience so they can make a living in the new free South Africa. The South Africa that those brave women hoped for all those many difficult years ago.
I know you are anxious and want me to get to the point. Let me remind you how we continue to blame Israel and other countries that sponsored apartheid. Directly and indirectly, we condemn them up to this day.
But we continue to sponsor unemployment, poverty and corruption. Whether it is directly or indirectly. We do it. If we let a family from Asia that has influence over our government so it can make money and do nothing about it, it means we are comfortable with bullshit. It gets worse because some the most principled people I know have have swapped their principles for money.  They are now on the payroll of people who have contaminated our democracy. It is my belief that if that is the case, we too sponsor the ills that plague our hard-earned freedom.
Nelson Mandela was no saint, but he had principles. He turned down freedom because it was at the expense of his comrades. We would never turn down an offer to advance ourselves. Even if it is at the expense of others. We would rather be in make-up in front of cameras and repurposing what should be stories.
The factory that manufactured Compassion must have shut down in the 1950s. The few good people that are left are in the background.